Should I install GNU/hurd from Debians Distro CD, which they released on 25th Oct, 2005. Will it be easier than installing crosshurd?
revant
Sometime on Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 06:06:00PM +0530, (???????????????) Revant Nandgaonkar said:
Should I install GNU/hurd from Debians Distro CD, which they released on 25th Oct, 2005. Will it be easier than installing crosshurd?
Anytime easier! Just make sure that you have taken a printout of ``hurd-install'' guide present on your CD. If your's a fairly old comp (like say, Erle's Laptop), then it would install without any problem.
Anurag
On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 18:06 +0530, (रेवंत) Revant Nandgaonkar wrote:
Should I install GNU/hurd from Debians Distro CD, which they released on 25th Oct, 2005. Will it be easier than installing crosshurd?
I guess you'd be better off trying to run off a live GNU/Hurd CD first.
Regards,
ah
2005/12/9, Amol Hatwar amol@hatwar.org:
Will it be easier than installing crosshurd?
I guess you'd be better off trying to run off a live GNU/Hurd CD first.
You can try the live CD from superunprivileged.org I installed GNU/Hurd using cross hurd two days back.
The steps involved are 1. Create a 2GB ext2 partition 2. mount it (say /root/jail - crosshurd default) 3. Install crosshurd (apt-get install crosshurd) 4. Run crosshurd as root 5. Let it complete the installtion 6. Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst to include GNU/Hurd (Installguide has the grub entries ) http://www.us.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install.html
Some pointers to remember
The Hurd partition naming isdifferent from linux
Linux Hurd hda hd0 hdb hd1 hdc hd2 ..... hda1 hd0s1 hda4 hd0s4
7. Login in single user mode 8. Run ./native-install 9. Reboot to multiuser mode (change grub entries) 9.1 cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV <hd0s1> 9.2 mount the GNU/Linux partition 9.3 Edit grub and reboot. 10. Run console (refer install guide for options) 11. Add CDROMs to sources.lst 11.1 create CDROM device hd2 (in my case) 11.2 mount -t iso9660 /dev/hd2 /cdrom 11.3 apt-cdrom add 11.4 umount (!!!! umount is not there in GNU/Hurd, I have not figured out how to un mount yet, but I just killed the iso9660 server after ps -x) 11.5 Take out the CD and insert next CD 11.6 run apt-cdrom add, but it fails so mount the cdrom again and run the command
(Some body need to hack on this - how to unmount cdrom) 12. apt-get install vim xserver-xfree86
Not yet configured x, need some hack 13. setup network 14. add apt repos
....
The gcc version is 4.0, gnome is 2.2 wmaker is there So it has come a long way. It is time to try it for all those who tried it before and disappointed. It gives you a chance to go back in time and experience the joy hackers had in the early linux stage. There is lotta opportunity to hack. Many simple things can be done, which is missing.
May be we can hack on the live CD to have X and so on
I started hacking GNU and if anyone out there willing to do this with me, I'll be very happy.
Regards Praveen A PS: We had demoed GNU/Hurd live CD at foss.in/2005
-- "GNU is the system, and Linux is the kernel." A proud GNU user http://www.gnu.org Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr
On 12/10/05, प्रवीण् ए (Praveen A) pravi.a@gmail.com wrote:
The gcc version is 4.0, gnome is 2.2 wmaker is there So it has come a long way. It is time to try it for all those who tried it before and disappointed. It gives you a chance to go back in time and experience the joy hackers had in the early linux stage. There is lotta opportunity to hack. Many simple things can be done, which is missing.
May be we can hack on the live CD to have X and so on
I started hacking GNU and if anyone out there willing to do this with me, I'll be very happy.
I'm here.
revant
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(रेवंत) Revan t Nandgaonkar -
Amol Hatwar -
Anurag -
आनंद (Anand M R) -
प्रव ीण् ए (Praveen A)